I’m also aware people have looked at Astana and thought that because they needed an injury-time goal to knock Zalgiris Vilnius out in midweek, they can’t be much good.

But flip that around. If you are an Astana player and you check Celtic’s results, you’ll see they lost in Gibraltar. What are they going to be thinking?

They’ll fancy it and it is a very tough test.

If Celtic play as a Celtic team can, they can do this job.

Celtic's Leigh Griffiths (L) with team mate Moussa Demblele

But right at this moment, we don’t have enough evidence to suggest Celtic will do that.

I’ve said it right from the outset that Rodgers is a terrific appointment but he’s not a magician.

There is only so much a boss can do with the tools at his disposal and he has not had enough time to build and shape the squad and team the way he wants.

No manager could have done that in such a short space of time without significant squad changes because last season proved the current crop weren’t capable of competing properly in Europe.

Celtic's Moussa Dembele in action with Lincoln's Bernardo Lopes

It’s going to be an on-the-hoof job in terms of team decisions going into the ties.

Without question, Celtic fans are hugely frustrated there has only been one signing, Moussa Dembele, brought into the club since Rodgers arrived.

The supporters are acutely aware of the problem areas.

At the beginning of the summer, it was obvious a right-back was needed and, if Jozo Simonovic was not going to be available for the matches, a central defender was also required.

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Other positions could do with being strengthened but those were key for the qualifiers because it is a lack of defensive solidity which had put Celtic out of the competition during the qualifiers in the past two seasons.

So, basically, it’s go with what you have. Which isn’t much and that worries me.

I completely get it that Erik Sviatchenko and Jozo Simunovic were signed with a view to being the long-term parternship in defence and you may not want to be splashing out on another centre-back in that situation.

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But the bottom line is that all signs pointed to Simunovic being unavailable for the qualifiers when he got the injury in the first place, so this should have been addressed in some way because everyone knew Efe Ambrose wasn’t the answer and Dedryck Boyata, fit or not, is also not worthy of trust.

Erik Sviatchenko with Efe Ambrose (Image: Craig Foy/SNS Group)

I’ve said for a long time that Mikael Lustig is more than capable of stepping infield and playing central.

But the failure to sign a right-back means that, if the Swede does go inside to partner Sviatchenko in Kazakhstan, there is a gaping hole there which could only really be filled by Saidy Janko or Darnell Fisher.

Janko has played for Rodgers more since he joined but surely that can’t be an acceptable solution. He hass hardly played since Ronny Deila punted him into right-back for the loss in Malmo almost a year ago.

Scott Brown applauds Celtic fans after the Hoops edged out Qarbag

I’d fancy Celtic to score in most games and, if I could put my faith in the team getting a clean sheet in Kazakhstan, they’d have a huge opportunity to win.

But nothing that has happened in the past couple of years on the park or in the transfer market over the past couple of months can assure me Rodgers has enough security.

Hopefully, those fears prove unfounded and Celtic do the job. But I can’t say I’m brimful of confidence.